Re: Sat In Your Lap

[Ulrich Grepel <uli@zoodle.robin.de>]

Hi!

> > As an aside: could someone please explain what "sat in your lap" means?
> > I suppose it's some kind of English saying.
>
> Don't know much about English sayings, but form teh context of the song,
> "Some say that knowledge is something that's sat in your lap / Some say
> that knowledge is something that you never have," I'd say that "Sat in
> Your Lap" is akin to the saying "Handed to you on a silver platter." In
> other words, soemthing "Sat in Your Lap" is given to you without
> you having to expend any effort on it.

There's a German saying "in den Schoss gelegt" which is basically an exact
word-by-word translation of "sat in your lap", and indeed it means you got
it by heritage, instinct or any other method that doesn't need any efforts.

Bye,

Uli


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